Day: December 18, 2025

Instacart’s stock price slid 9% in premarket trading on December 17, 2025, following revelations that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had launched a formal investigation into the grocery delivery firm’s AI-driven pricing tool. The probe, linked to possible consumer deception via dynamic pricing algorithms, has ignited industry-wide debate around the ethics, transparency, and legality…